Category Archives: Oddball Ideas

Creative and innovative musings of the practical and less so kind

Why start with Monday?

February 15, 2010 – 11:24 am

Seriously, why should I start with a Monday? I don’t have a boss that tells me what to do when. I do not have a set schedule that force me to view the week in a certain way. The only thing I have is the weight of the rest of the world that tells me [...]

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A cool running for Bafana Bafana with me as coach

October 20, 2009 – 8:19 pm

Seeing as Bafana Bafana is now without a coach and I am officially unemployed I’ve have decided to make myself available for the post. I believe I am perfectly qualified for the position.
These are the qualities that I bring to the post:

I have officially played soccer once in my life when I was in the [...]

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The tension of the task

October 15, 2009 – 8:15 am

Have you looked recently at job advertisements? Because a lot of them have things like “must be able to work under pressure.”
There is a dramatic principle called the tension of the task. When a character is dealing with a task – baking a cake, planning a murder, overthrowing a government – there is tension. Will [...]

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